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Zuckerburg's genius was realizing he could be famous off a better implementation of someone else's idea. He eventually started making money on it, too. This is
by nickpsecurity 9y ago
Zuckerburg's genius was realizing he could be famous off a better implementation of someone else's idea. He eventually started making money on it, too. This is a recurring pattern in technology.
- dasil003 9y agoWhose idea did he copy? TheFacebook was nothing like Friendster or MySpace, it came from a completely different angle. Also, why do you assume he wanted to be famous, or had some realization about how to be successful? The truth is, he executed the shit out of a scalable idea, and he had the vision to see it through many orders of magnitude growth. The idea that there was some master plan is just silly, his success, like most big companies was iterating over time and making a series of successful bets.
- nickpsecurity 9y agoLet's start with Winklevoss Twins and early employees that might have given him an idea or two.
- lmm 9y ago> TheFacebook was nothing like Friendster or MySpace, it came from a completely different angle. In the early days it was more MySpace-like, and the parts that weren't were very much like LiveJournal. The UI was much better though.
- a_imho 9y agoThis is clear case of survival bias. We had social networks way before facebook, I remember using one in 2002 and it took many years until a mass user exodus to facebook. Without hindsight, nothing about facebook was novel. It had less to do with Zuckerberg's intellectual capacity and more to do with luck, capital and network effects.